My Little Cabin -- Companion to Joy Restored

Manufacturer: Jude Urbanski

ISBN: 978-1-61252-109-1

Length: Novella

Category: Inspirational, Historical

Sub-Category: FREE

Rating: Sweet

Photography/Artwork: Jenifer Ranieri

Release Date: December 1, 2011

Price: $0.00

A Desert Breeze Publishing Free Read

Companion to Joy Restored by Jude Urbanski Linda Evans marries the love of her life at age eighteen, but soon realizes she has a restless, alcoholic husband with job instability. They manage to build a little cabin home in rural Tennessee, but neither babies nor cabin keep Floyd ''Red'' Hardin close to hearth. As tenacious as she is pretty, Linda scratches out a living for herself and her six children when her husband ends up missing. She succumbs to county relief for survival, but instills strength and character in her young family. Strong faith in God sustains her and she finds love and friendship in Mr. Flynn, her lonely and wealthy neighbor, until a familiar stranger comes down the road.

EXCERPT

I was just eighteen when Floyd Hardin asked me to marry him, and I was easily persuaded as I had loved him all my life. So on December 17, 1922, we were married.

We had no home to call our own, so my newly-acquired husband said, "I believe I will try Dix Dam and see if I can get a job there. I would make them a good hand."

So off he went to Dix Dam and was soon hired as a jackhammer man, at seven dollars a day. I was left with his mother all alone, but I knew he had to work for the money to buy our own home. For four long months he stayed at Dix Dam, then one day when home he announced, "I am getting tired of this jackhammer trade."

With the little money we had saved, we began to plan where we could get a small track of land to build a cabin. On Wilson Creek lay four fine and inexpensive acres. Floyd decided to buy them, and the little cabin we had dreamed of soon became reality.

When this was done, our money was all about gone. Floyd again needed work, but it was hard to find. To help out, I tried selling Cloverine Salve among the neighbors. Through their kind, sympathetic help, I soon sold enough to buy some curtains for the windows.

It was not long until I had little Howard to care for, so I gave up selling salve, and again we began to feel the pinch of poverty. Floyd, who was fond of traveling, said he would make a trip north to Muncie, Indiana, to make some money to provide for the little home on the hillside. He soon met up with a man who said he would take him straight through to Muncie for four dollars. That sounded pretty good and cheap. He went on this trip, leaving me at home. As it was getting too late to travel that day, they decided to spend the night in town. Floyd is a heavy drinker, so he immediately filled himself with alcohol, and in a stupefied condition, weak and dizzy, went out for a walk. A policeman took him to the station for the night, and he missed his driving partner in the morning. Floyd had no money with him to buy a ticket to Muncie, as he had spent all he had the night before. All he could do was return home again with a motorist who was coming this way. When he got back, he was ashamed, but he refused to start out again until spring.

It took a lot of patience to go through this world with Floyd.

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